Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

This data collection contains October 1977 employment and
payroll figures by function for state and local governments. Full-time
and part-time employment and payrolls are shown for corrections,
education, administration, fire protection, health, libraries, police,
public welfare, utilities, parks, transit, sewage, and highways. Data
are also included for labor-management relations, employee benefits,
health, hospital or disability insurance, and life insurance. There
are seven files in this data collection. Parts 1-5 provide data for
each individual state and local government. Part 6 includes data for
county areas (local governmental units within each county). Part 7
contains a United States summary and state summaries for the following
types of governments: state and local government total, state
government, local government total, local governments in standard
metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs), counties, municipalities, townships,
school districts, and special districts.

This data collection contains October 1977 employment and
payroll figures by function for state and local governments. Full-time
and part-time employment and payrolls are shown for corrections,
education, administration, fire protection, health, libraries, police,
public welfare, utilities, parks, transit, sewage, and highways. Data
are also included for labor-management relations, employee benefits,
health, hospital or disability insurance, and life insurance. There
are seven files in this data collection. Parts 1-5 provide data for
each individual state and local government. Part 6 includes data for
county areas (local governmental units within each county). Part 7
contains a United States summary and state summaries for the following
types of governments: state and local government total, state
government, local government total, local governments in standard
metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs), counties, municipalities, townships,
school districts, and special districts.

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF GOVERNMENTS, 1977: EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY STATISTICS. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1979. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1983. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08117.v1

Universe:
The 50 state governments and approximately 80,000 local
units of government identified in the governmental organization phase
of the Census.

Data Type(s):
census/enumeration data

Methodology

Sample:
All from the universe except special district governments
with less than five full-time employees and municipal and township
governments with less than 2,500 residents, unless they had a
dependent school system.

Data Source:

mailback questionnaires

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-05-03

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB8117.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.